Franchising.com: Timing, opportunity and economic feasibility — all three factors are key to giving people the extra push they need to get started on the road to business ownership. For Julie and Barry Ellis of Fairhaven, Vt., the decision to start a franchise business was all about timing. In 2006, Barry had worked for a […]
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Financial Times: Atul Pathak is making money out of the explosion in fast food, writes Jonathan Moules . He approached McDonald’s about buying a franchise six years ago, and the company made him flip hamburgers and scrub the floors for nine months before giving him the keys to his first restaurant. “I was thinking, bloody
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The Virginian-Pilot: It’s not something economic developers hear very often – a business moving to Hampton Roads to have more access to commercial airline flights. But for a small company that operated for nearly two decades on Martha’s Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod in Massachusetts, the region seems a hub of air travel. The
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VNUNet.com: Online purchases at Domino’s Pizza now account for nearly a quarter of all home delivery sales. The fast-food chain saw a 74 per cent increase in web revenue during its 2008 financial year, up to £55.9m – 23.3 per cent of delivered sales, compared to 16 per cent in 2007. The value of online
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InjuryBoard.com: Days Inn of America, Inc., a national motel chain, has agreed to pay $600,000 to a 65 year old Delaware man who was shot in the stomach at the Selma Days Inn. This is true even though the Selma Days Inn was owned and operated by a franchisee separate and apart from Days Inn
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IndUS Business Journal: Entrepreneur magazine’s annual “Franchise 500†issue recognizes Kumon, the world’s largest after-school math and reading program, as the leading tutoring franchise for the eighth consecutive year. Corporate layoffs and consolidations combined with an unstable economy are driving professionals to pursue alternative career paths, according to Kumon franchising experts. “Entrepreneurship is becoming a
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